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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been outcompeted for jobs by young men for 25 years.  It's always the 30-year old young dads with finance or engineering backgrounds.  They are really good at posturing.  I won't say networking, because they aren't really that social.  I'm wondering whether to give up. I'm considered good at what I do, but not leadership material. I have a Hillary-Clinton-like "something about her" factor which means I'm too smart but nobody is sure what they want to have me work on because I'm not the kind of person they want to hang out with.

The technical part of my company has a 70/30 ratio M/F in most meetings. Lately, in my particular area, which is more business than technical, it's been 90/10.  How is that even possible that it's been getting worse, not better, in a less STEM-my area?  It's psychologically draining.  I make enough money.  But I'm sure I'll be faulted if I stop showing any ambition. Even though[b] I mostly get the mommy jobs of teaching and cleaning up after the youngsters[/b]. Which has to get done.  Ugh.[/quote]

You have to stop doing those types of jobs well. Sometimes, as women, we have to learn to not do everything perfectly and to stop caring about everything. [/quote]

True but it is hard. I'm 56 and I just let a coworker crash and burn for the 1st time in my career. Of course the bosses were like, hey did you know this was going to happen (yes but im not telling you that), I say I was not babysitting him I was busy with a much bigger project.

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